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Smart Power and Energy Storage Solutions Global Technology Portal Visit the AUTM Global Technology Portal (GTP) for more information on university technologies for licensing worldwide. Technologies represented: Updated on 10/25/16

Energy Storage Systems (ESS) Technology Title Organization Light-Weight, Edge Collected Assembly (Enables production of thin, light-weight and flexible fuel cell stack that can be microfabricated in ambient conditions with common microfabrication techniques; US Patent 8,247,135) Case Western Reserve University

Novel Titanium Electrowinning Process Using Specialized Segmented Diaphragms

Solid-State Nano-Integrated 3D-Battery from Block Copolymer Self-Assembly Planar Membraneless Microchannel Fuel Cell Symmetric Organic for Redox Flow Batteries

Solar Cornell University Metal-CO2 Batteries Stable Room-Temperature Sodium-Sulfur Battery Active Energy Storage RF Thermoelectric Generator for RF Energy Harvesting Sodium Thermo-Electro-Chemical (Na-TEC) Generator Piezoelectric energy harvesting from hydraulic pressure fluctuations HydroFold -High Efficiency-Capacity-Density Foldable Hydrogen Storage Media

Georgia Tech Research Corporation Sorption-Enhanced CHAMP Reactors for Distributed Fuel Processing and Power Generation with Integrated CO2 Capture

Case-Encapsulated Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Harvesting Energy from Reciprocating Sliding Motion

Nanowire Piezo-Electric Generator

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Nanogenerators Via Piezoelectric-Coated Carbon Nanotubes Zero-Power Sensors Triggered by External Impact Regenerative CHAMP Reactors with Actively Controlled Piston/Diaphragm Via Flexible Actuation

Wireless Self-Powered Force and Pressure Nanosensors Flexible Piezo-Electric Generator High-Output Power Generator Three Dimensionally Integrated, Mechanically Rubust and High-Output AC Nanogenerator and Its Powering of Nanodevices Piezo-Phototronics Devices and Applications Driving Personal Electronics by Flexible Nanogenerator Transparent Flexible Nanogenerator as Self-powered Sensor for Transportation Monitoring

Human Skin Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators Dual-Mode Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Harvesting Water Energy Simultaneously Harvesting Electrostatic and Mechanical Energies from Flowing Wate by a Hybridized Triboelectric Nanogenerator

A stretchable, flexible and shape-adaptive approach for versatile energy conversion and self-powered biomedical monitoring

Standards and Figure of Merits for Quantifying the Performance of Triboelectric Nanogenerators

A highly Stretchable Fiber-based Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Self- Powered Wearable Electronics

Battery Parameters/SOC/SOH Co-estimation Algorithm North Carolina State University Battery Charger and Power Reduction System and Method

2D Pressure Sensor to Determine State of Charge and Battery Integrity Battery Leakage Detector

Electrical Conductor Improves Battery Safety

Topologically Interlocked Battery Assembly (TIBA) Improves Crash Safety Purdue Research Foundation

Modular Heat Exchanger for Metal Hydride Hydrogen Storage

Ammonia Removal for Hydrogen Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells

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Energy Storage Systems (ESS) Technology Title Organization

Economic Analysis of Renewable and Battery Storage Systems

An Ocean-Wave Energy Conversion System Optimized for Energy Capture Texas Tech University and Delivery of Utility-Standard Power

Flexible Micro-

University of Cincinnati Flow Battery Improvements

Solid State Lithium Sulfur Battery Rechargeable Zinc-Air Battery using the Concentrated Neutral Inverted Battery Design for Interfacing with Biosystems Long Cycle Life and High Energy Efficiency Bismuth-Based Battery A High- Aqueous Li-/Sulfur Battery Staggered‐ Solid State Multibattery All-solid- state manufactured using Atomic Layer Deposition University of Maryland on flexible substrates and textiles Multiple-Electron Aqueous Battery Multiple-Electron Aqueous Battery Rechargeable Al/S Battery with Ionic Liquid Electrolyte All-in-one Nano Arrays For Energy Storage Safe, Low-cost, High-Energy-Density, Solid-State Li-ion Batteries

ESS Materials or Components Technology Title Organization Metal-Free Catalysts For Oxygen Reduction Reactions and Others Transformation enabled nitride magnets absent rare earths (TEN Mare) High Thermal Conductivity Micro/Nano Hybrid Composites Metallic-Glass Alloys For Capacitor Heteroatom-Doped Carbon Nanomaterials As Durable Metal-Free Catalysts Case Western Reserve University For Acidic Fuel Fells Including PEM Fuel Cells

A Metal-Free Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction and Oxygen Evolution Reactions In Metal-Air Batteries Solar Durability and Lifetime Extension Center - degradation of solar photovoltaic materials, and other environmentally exposed, long lived technologies.

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ESS Materials or Components Technology Title Organization Solid Polymer Electrolyte Compositions for Lithium-Metal-Polymer Batteries Conducting Polymer-Modified Covalent Organic Framework for Enhanced Charging Rate

Ordered Gyroidal Mesoporous Carbon and Uses in Solid-State Batteries High Performance Organic for Thin Film Batteries Highly Active, Stable Core-Shell Nanocatalyst for Fuel Cells Highly Crystalline Mesoporous Transition Metal Oxides with Uniform Pores Mesoporous Metal Nitride Materials Prepared from Bulk Oxides Electro- of Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions in Alkaline Media

Template-free Hollow Nanostructures Coaxial Sn02/Carbon Hollow Nanosphere Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries Mass Produced Mesoporous Cobalt Oxide Nanoneedles and Their Application as Anodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries

Manganese Oxide Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries Cornell University Scalable Manufacturing of Millimeter Length Thermoelectric Nanosheets Scalable Synthesis of Nanocomposite Nanostructures Embedded in a Carbon Matrix

Nanomaterials for Additive-free Li-Ion Battery Free and Multicomponent Layer-by-Layer Separator Coating for Lithium Batteries Nanoporous Polymer-Ceramic Composite Separator for Li-Ion Batteries Hybrid Polymer Networks for Shape Memory Polymers and Lithium Stable Ionic Dispersions Conducting Metal Oxide Catalyst Supports Starch Additives for Lithium-Sulfur Battery Cathodes Coating Structure for High-Performance Lithium Sulfur Batteries Highly Conductive, Sulfonate UV-crosslinked Separators for Li-S Batteries Materials and Methods for Stabilizing Electrodeposition of Metals and Extending Lifetime of Rechargeable Batteries

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ESS Materials or Components Technology Title Organization Reduced Oxide Band Photovltaic and Integrated Capacitive Storage Devices

Conjugated Polyelectrolytes as Water Processable Precursors to Organic and Aqueous Compatible Polymers for Charge Storage, Electrochromic and Bioelectronic Applications

Enhanced Battery Charging by Sound Hydrogen from Wood Thermo-electrochemical Liquid Cold Plate Electrochemical Based on Polyacrylonitrile- Composites

Carbon molecular sieve membrane performance tuning by dual temperature secondary oxygen doping (DTSOD)

Internally gated carbon nanotube field emission device with a novel etch design.

Oxide Coated, Lignin Derived Carbon Fiber Electrodes for Low Cost Lithium Georgia Tech Research Corporation Ion Batteries From Renewable Feedstock

Polarizable Sol-Gel Materials, Methods of preparation and Processing for energy Storage Devices

Nanostructured Composite Polymer Thermal/Electrical Interface Material and Method for Making the Same

Multilayer Coatings Formed on Aligned Arrays of Carbon Nanotubes for Electromagnetic Detection and Energy Conversion

Direct Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz CW Power Generation via Traveling Domains Induced in Polar Heterostructures

Novel Anode Even Harmonic Modulation Energy Profiler Surface Functionalization for High Output Nanogenerator

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ESS Materials or Components Technology Title Organization Novel HVDC Switching Cable DC Circuit Breaker North Carolina State University Vertical GaN Power Devices "High Voltage Si/SiC Hybrid Power Switch: An Ideal Next Step for SiC"

Li-Ion Battery Optimization Laser Induced Nanostructures for High Efficiency Batteries High Capacity Li-Ion Batteries Using Carbon Nanometallic Hybrids Multi-Component Metal Oxide Nanoneedles as Pseudocapacitor Electrodes Optimal Particle Morphology of Electrodes Strategies and Methods for Protecting Polymer Against Chemical Degredation

Novel Electrolyte Material for Li-Ion Batteries Purdue Research Foundation Flash Thermography for Quality Assurance of Anodes and Cathodes Production of Atomically Precise Clusters at Atmospheric Pressure 3D Simulation of Battery Materials Improves Battery Design Simulation Framework for the Design of Improved Battery Materials Simulate the Deformation and Evolution of Heterogeneous Microstructures with Electroplates

Reusable Test Fixture Method of Making Nanocrystalline Metal Flakes via Ultrasonic Shot Peening

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ESS Materials or Components

Technology Title Organization Developing high fidelity computer simulations for predicting the hemodynamic performance and potential risk areas of endovascular stent grafts prior to clinical trials

Developing engineered technologies for drug delivery balloons used to treat peripheral artery disease South Dakota State University Developing distributed community-level torrefaction reactor systems to produce bio-char and value added products from agricultural and forestry residues

Fast pyrolysis on non-food oilseed meals for producing value-added bio-oil Vehicle for Internal Inspection of Substation Transformers Electric current imaging system Radar system for wave measurements and control Magnetic Field Vector Imaging Array

Complex Domain Beamforming based on Radio Frequency Vector Multiplier Texas Tech University Periodic Nanostructures for High Energy-density and High Power-density Devices and Systems.

Power System Management using real-time PMU Synchro-Phasor Data coupled with Meteorological Data

Fuel Cells-Polymers for non-aqueous flow batteries

Fuel Cells-Redox active colloidal particles for size selective electrical energy storage

Battery electrodes with ultrafast discharge capability

Scaffolod free three dimensional battery electrode University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign Methods and materials for autonomous battery shutdown

Autonomic repair and restoration of electrical conductivity

Flame retardant microcapsules for improved safety of batteries

Silicon anodes-Si composite Li-ion batteries with dynamic ionic bonding

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ESS Materials or Components Technology Title Organization Polymer Solid Electrolyte for Flexible Batteries Multi-Electrode Electrochemical Cell for Characterizing Battery Electrodes Stabilizing an Aqueous Electrolyte at a High-Voltage Cathode in a Lithium-Ion Battery Enhancing the Reversibility of Mg/S Battery Chemistry through Li + University of Maryland Mediation Realizing high reversibility and high energy density for the conversion- reaction cathode by pinning the active species Atomic Layer Deposition for Metal Anode Passivation Higher Conductivity Na+ Electrolyte Ultrafast charge and discharge biscrolled yarn supercapacitors for textiles and microdevices

Novel Bidirectional Single-Phase AC-DC Charging Circuit

Partially Fluorinated Proton Exchange Membranes based on PFCP for Fuel Cell Membranes University of Texas at Dallas Sheath-Core Fibers for Superelastic Electronics, Sensors, and Muscles

Compatibilized immiscible polymer blends and molecular sieve membranes thereof

Electromagnetic switched reluctance motors

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ESS Materials or Components Technology Title Organization "Desulfurizer-Reformer Reactor System for use with Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Novel method of developing robust sulfur-tolerant reforming catalyst and agile sulfur sorbent formulations for logistic fuels including diesel, coal and, jet and aviation fuels. Issued U.S. Utility Patent #9,061,911 B2"

"No-Heat-Required System for Sensing Chlorine Gas Continuous chlorine gas sensing system provides rapid, reliable, cost effective and easy to operate monitoring of ambient environments. Issued U.S. Utility Patent # 8,414,831"

University of Toledo "High Temperature Sulfur Sorbents for Fuel Cells Novel sulfur removal technology comprising a single metal or metal oxide from a specific group dispersed in the inert matrices to improve sulfur sorbents. Patent describes use of the sulfur sorbent composition in a reformer device, where such combination can be used in a process of reforming a sulfur containing fuel in order to produce a hydrogen-rich reformate. Issued U.S. Utility Patent # 9,358,521"

Methods of Making and Using Exhaust Gas Purification Catalysts Catalytic system for the abatement of harmful pollutants such as CO, HCs, VOCs, NOx and SOx. Issued U.S. Utility Patent # 8,227,373 B1

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ESSSmart Materials Power/Grid or Components Technology Title Organization Self-Powering, Easy-To-Deploy, Low-Cost Multiphysical Sensors For Smart Building And Environment Monitoring

Ultrasensitive SiC MEMS Gas Analyzers And Sensor Networks With Wireless Communication for Real-Time Monitoring of Methane Leak

Smart Wind Turbine Blade Case Western Reserve University

Energy Harvesting from Pavement and Road Surfaces

Energy Diagnostics Investigator For Efficiency Solutions: Mapping the Building Energy Genome for Virtual Energy Audits; ARPA-E Program in Smart Buildings

Reinforced High Temperature PEM Electric Power Generation from Low-Grade Heat Using Buoyancy- Induced Vortices

Electrochemical Device Based Multiple Junction Ionic Conductive Membranes

CHAMP Reactor for Scalable Hydrogen Generation Proton Electrolyte Membranes Direct Fuel Impingement Planar-Array-Microreactor Hybrid Solid Oxide Fuel Cells from Linear Cellular Materials Spatially-controlled synthesis of palladium-rhodium hetero-nanostructures

Non-Phase Separated InGaN for use in Light-Emitting Diodes, Lasers, and Georgia Tech Research Corporation Solar Cells

Mobility and Conformance Control in Enhanced Oil Recovery by Using Particle-Oil Stabilized Capillary Foams

Thermophotovoltaics With Storage Solar Powered Electrochromic Window Enhancement of In Situ Radiation for Facilitated Thermal Management of High Temperature Fuel Cells

New SOFC structure and materials Optical Fiber Based Three Dimensional Solar Cells Droplet Impingement Planar-Array-Microreactor

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Improvements in Thin-Film Membranes for Fuel Cells Constant-Pressure Fuel Dispensing System Application of Laser Doppler Vibrometer for Remote Assessment of Structural Components

Three Dimensional Solar Cells Three-Dimensiion P-N Junction Hybrid cells for Harvesting Solar Energy and Mechanical Energies Simultaneously… iSpace: a Large-scale Time-sensitive Distributed Control Technology High Switched-Capacitor Converter for Offshore Wind Energy Systems

North Carolina State University A Real-Time Greedy-Index Based PEV Dispatching Policy for Providing Power Grid Services A Novel Grid Connected Buck-Boost Converter System Accurate Control of Chemical Activity in Nano Devices Touch Actuated Micropump for Transdermal Drug Delivery Aqueous Biobased Battery Heat Exchanger for Biomass Pretreatment in Production of Ethanol Synergistically Integrated Natural Gas Reforming Biomass Fast Hydropyrolysis Process

Pretreatment Liquefies Biomass into a Fermentable Slurry Process for Utilizing Liquefied Lignocellulosic Biomass Enhanced Enzyme Hydrolysis of Biomas

Solar Energy Harvesting with LED-Based Displays Purdue Research Foundation High Efficiency Combustion and Electric Generation Using Exhaust Heat Foam Composite Protects Packages and Harvests Energy During Shipping Multiaxis Levitating Vibration Energy Harvester in 2D Plane Microscale Energy Harvesting Power Converter (Charge Pump) Microcontroller Energy Management System Fluid Power System Allowing Energy Recovery from Assistive Actuator Loads System for Printing Sensors into Fabrics for Wearable Electronics Laser-Based Fabrication of Metal Nanocomposites on Flexible Substrates Failure Prevention and Repair for Energy Distributions

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Asymmetric Salient Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine Controlled Hydrogen Generation Hydrogen Production from Organic Silanes Generating Hydrogen from Ammonia Borane Fast Hydropyrolysis for Hydrogen Bio-Oil Production of Hydrogen Using an Anaerobic Biological Process Energy Management Control Systems for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Solar-Powered Refrigeration from Graphine-Based Nanoemitters Omnidirectional Light Absorber and Concentrator New Design Makes Solar Panels Shade Tolerant Scribing Isolation: Panel Design for Thin Film Photovoltaics Controlling Thin Film Structures for Efficient Solar Energy Storage Dynamic Switching Between Cooling and Power Generation in Thermoelectric Modules and Applications

Thermoelectric Materials for High Temperature Applications Flexible Thermoelectric Materials on Fabrics Coated Glass Fibers with High Termoelectric Efficiency Solid Theroelectric Power Generators Maximizing Energy Capture of Wind Turbines Damage Detection in Sandwich Composite Materials Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding for Repair of Composite Materials and Structures

Additive Manufacture of High Strength Aluminum Metal Matrix Composites Wind Turbine Blade Monitoring Reat Time Identification and Monitoring of Loads Acting on an Object HyperBlade Coaxial Wind Turbine Remote Microgrid Energy Management System Considering Battery Lifetime South Dakota State University

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Smart Power/Grid Technology Title Organization

Robust Droop Control for Parallel Operated Inverters

Detection of front-induced impending ramps in wind farm power production Texas Tech University Method and model for accurate and fast power flow analysis in power systems operation and planning

Dynamic Wind Turbine

University of Cincinnati Air-Cooling with Thermal Energy Storage for Efficient Energy Generation

Solar Panel-Control Methods and Circuits for Extremely Fast Response in Switching Power Converters

Solar Panel-Power Processing for Optimizing Energy Production from Solar Cell or Panel Arrays University of Illinois at Urbana- Solar Panel-Series-Input Parallel Output Multiple DC-DC Converter with Champaign Dynamic Current Sharing for High-Current DC Power Supply Solar Panel-Efficient Low Power DC-DC Converter

Solar Panel-Multiple-Input Buck Boost Power Converter

"A Bi-level Equalizer for Battery Cell Charge Management Novel hybrid equlizer (EQU), called the bi-level EQU (BEQ), provides performance close to a switching equalizer, but at much lower cost. University of Toledo Increases lifetime battery capacity of up to 50% and efficiency of up to 98%. Provisional patent application #62/287,575."

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